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This Highway Code applies to England, Scotland and Wales. The Highway Code is essential reading for everyone. Many of the rules in the Code are legal requirements, and if you disobey these rules you are committing a criminal offence. You may be fined, given penalty points on your licence or be disqualified from driving. In the most serious cases you may be sent to prison. Such rules are identified by the use of the words ‘MUST/MUST NOT’. In addition, the rule includes an abbreviated reference to the legislation which creates the offence.

Short form text Message writing can be confusing but here are some tips to help you understand commonly used phrases and words.

Text messages are very short and the grammar is often very bad. Do you know what these mean?

1. l8r
2. u
3. c
4. 2
5. xx
6. lol
7. ur
8. m8
9. b4
10. r u
11. ASAP

Can you match the text message language with the correct English?
 

There are many ways to greet someone. We'll learn about the most common ways to greet someone in this lesson

Greeting someone you never met: "Hello, my name is Anna."

You can respond to this by saying, "Hi Anna, how are you today?"

They may reply with : "I am fine thank you. How are you ?"

You can respond in this way:  "I am good. Thanks for asking."

There are many ways to greet someone. Hello is the most common.

Main Entry: hello

Part of Speech: interjection

Definition: how do you do

Synonyms:

Can you think of other ways to greet someone you meet?

Parts of Speech -Possessive Nouns

In the possessive case, a noun or pronoun changes its form to show that it owns or is closely related to something else.

Usually, nouns become possessive by adding a combination of an apostrophe and the letter "s."
You can form the possessive case of a singular noun that does not end in "s" by adding an apostrophe and "s," as in the following sentences:

Noun Plurals

Most nouns change their form to indicate number by adding "-s" or "-es", as illustrated in the following pairs of sentences:
 

When Matthew was small he rarely told the truth if he thought he was going to be punished.
Many people do not believe that truths are self-evident.

Parts of Speech -Noun Gender

Many common nouns, like "engineer" or "teacher," can refer to men or women.

Once, many English nouns would change form depending on their gender

A man was called an "author" while a woman was called an "authoress" but this use of gender-specific nouns is very rare today.

Those that are still used occasionally tend to refer to occupational categories, as in the following sentences.
 

flu⋅ent  floo-uhnt - pronounciation
Use fluency in a Sentence
–adjective

1. spoken or written with ease: fluent English. 
2. able to speak or write smoothly, easily, or readily: a fluent speaker; fluent in six languages. 
3. easy; graceful: fluent motion; fluent curves. 
4. flowing, as a stream.
5. capable of flowing; fluid, as liquids or gases.
6. easily changed or adapted; pliant.

Parts of Speech - Part 3

What is a Noun?
A noun is a word used to name a person, animal, place, thing, and abstract idea.

Nouns are usually the first words which small children learn.

The highlighted words in the following sentences are all nouns:
 

Late last year our neighbours bought a cat.
 

Portia White was an opera singer.
 

Slang

1. very informal usage in vocabulary and idiom that is characteristically more metaphorical,playful, elliptical, vivid, and ephemeral than ordinary language,

Hit the road.
 

2. (in English and some other languages) speech and writing characterized by the use of vulgar and socially taboo vocabulary and idiomatic expressions.
 

3. the jargon of a particular class, profession, etc.
 

4. the special vocabulary of thieves, vagabonds, etc.; argot.